Name: Brodo di pollo (Chicken stock)
Yield: Makes about 1.5 litres (6 cups)
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 small leek, roughly chopped; 1 celery stalk with leaves, chopped; a few black peppercorns; a small bunch of parsley stalks and leaves, left whole; 1 large white onion, peeled and quartered; 2 carrots, peeled and chopped; 1 medium-sized chicken

Preparation info

Makes about
1.5 litres

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Twelve

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2003

About

Chicken stock is used very often, and is made with chicken meat as well as the bones. If you are using only bones, add a couple of extra chicken wings as they make a tasty stock. Boiled chicken is often eaten on its own or with a sauce and serves as a very convenient, quick meal to have on hand.

Ingredients

1 medium-sized chicken
1 large white onion, peeled and quartered
1 small leek, roughly chopped

Method

Rinse the chicken and put into a large saucepan. Cover with about 3 litres (12 cups) of cold water and bring to the boil. (If all the water doesn’t fit into the pan at once, add the rest later once the sto